An electric dipole is a separation of positive and negative charges. The simplest example of this is a pair of electric charges of equal magnitude but opposite sign, separated by some (usually small) distance. A permanent electric dipole is called an electret.

The Earth’s magnetic field, approximated as a magnetic dipole. However, the “N” and “S” (north and south) poles are labeled here geographically, which is the opposite of the convention for labeling the poles of a magnetic dipole moment